RHOPALOCERA 19 
Larva —Short, somewhat onisciform, though longer than in the 
Lycsenidse, and set with small hairy warts. 
Pupa —Short, obtuse, rounded, slightly hairy, attached by the 
tail and a girdle round the middle. 
Imago —Wings broad, rather short, forewings with the sub¬ 
costal nervure three, four or five branched; cells closed ; 
hindwings with no basal nervure and with the sub-costal 
nervure and upper discoidal nervure rising from a common 
stalk 
27. ABISARA, Felder. 
Wien Ent. Mon. iv. p. 397, 1860 ; Sospita Hew. Exot. Butt, 
ii. Sosp. t. 1, 1861. 
A. segeoia, Hew. Exot. Butt, ii., Sosp. t. 1, f. 4-6, 1861. 
Family LYCaENID^E. 
■ Ovum —Very variable, sometimes nearly spherical, sometimes 
echinoid or semi-echinoid, sometimes punctated, at other 
times smooth. 
Larva —Onisciform, sometimes smooth, or clothed with a short 
down, sometimes with fascicles of short bristles or regularly- 
disposed tubercles ; head small, retractile ; habits sluggish, 
usually night feeders, hiding by day in crevices or even in 
ants’ nests; in most cases attended by ants ; sometimes 
gregarious; sometimes, though rarely, carnivorous; very 
often feeding in the buds or seed-pods of leguminous plants. 
Pupa —Short, thick, usually smooth ; usually attached by the 
tail and a girdle round the middle of the body ; found 
under pieces of bark or stones, in cracks, in ants’ nests, or 
rarely just under the surface of the soil. 
Imago —Usually of small size, of delicate structure and often of 
exquisite colour. Forelegs somewhat smaller than the rest, 
but nearly alike in both sexes Eorewing with the sub¬ 
costal nervule emitting two, three or rarely four branches ; 
discoidal cell narrow ; upper discocellular nervule wanting. 
Hindwing sometimes tailed and sometimes with a well 
developed anal lobe. 
The Australian species of this family have been recently 
revised by myself in the Linnean Society of U. S. Wales (1903). 
so it is only necessary for me to quote the principal reference, 
give the synonyms and the reference to my own paper (W.), 
without mentioning the original genus of description. 
A great deal of valuable work has yet to be done in this 
family by the collection of specimens, with accurate dates and 
